R help - Jan 2007 - Seek general information about time/date storage and functions in R

Hello R List -

 

I have to import Excel files (either as .csv files or using RODBC) into
R (2.4.1, Windows) and operate on dates and times (e.g. find minutes
between times, change dates to days of week or analyze by weeks of
year).  The help files for format.Date, strptime, as.POSIX,
DateTimeClasses, etc. etc. are informative but perhaps a little terse.
I have googled unsuccessfully for a more general description of how R
represents times and dates, and the methods (e.g. date arithmetic) for
working with them.  Can a reader point out such an introduction,
preferably on-line?

 

Thank you,

 

Ben Fairbank

 

 


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On 1/4/2007 12:42 PM, Ben Fairbank wrote:
> Hello R List -
> 
>  
> 
> I have to import Excel files (either as .csv files or using RODBC) into
> R (2.4.1, Windows) and operate on dates and times (e.g. find minutes
> between times, change dates to days of week or analyze by weeks of
> year).  The help files for format.Date, strptime, as.POSIX,
> DateTimeClasses, etc. etc. are informative but perhaps a little terse.
> I have googled unsuccessfully for a more general description of how R
> represents times and dates, and the methods (e.g. date arithmetic) for
> working with them.  Can a reader point out such an introduction,
> preferably on-line?
> 
There was an article in R-News on just this topic, in the R Help Desk in
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2004-1.pdf .

Duncan Murdoch

I think the best explanation of dates and times is in r-news 2.4.1 but
2.4.1 might be off so someone will hopefully correct me if I'm wrong.


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functionsin R

Hello R List -

 

I have to import Excel files (either as .csv files or using RODBC) into
R (2.4.1, Windows) and operate on dates and times (e.g. find minutes
between times, change dates to days of week or analyze by weeks of
year).  The help files for format.Date, strptime, as.POSIX,
DateTimeClasses, etc. etc. are informative but perhaps a little terse.
I have googled unsuccessfully for a more general description of how R
represents times and dates, and the methods (e.g. date arithmetic) for
working with them.  Can a reader point out such an introduction,
preferably on-line?

 

Thank you,

 

Ben Fairbank

 

 


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